Ethan's first cereal. He didn't seem super impressed. But we were glad to catch a few of the faces on video! And of course his big sister helped! She was also a bit unimpressed with the cereal!
I think he liked it! which is a bit more than we can say for the cereal!
A video of Ethan enjoying his bathtime. He had to take a bath because he had just had his very first meal of baby food, and there were as many carrots ON him as IN him!
He does so love bathtime! Our Ethan is a very smiley little boy. He gets oooh and ahhed over at school for being such a happy smiley little boy!
You'd be happy too if you had such a great big sister who thought the world of you!
Ethan is getting quite cute and ROUND faced! He holds his head easily, and even tries to use his back muscles to sit up and puts weight on his legs when you hold him upright! He smiles all the time, especially of a morning, and loves his big sister the best!
We are just trying to keep up (and at least have a FEW pictures of this second child!)
Funny Story. We went to lunch down in the quarter on Saturday. I was looking at the menu, trying to decide what to drink. The guy gave Megan a list, and she chose lemonade. Then he told me "We have peach tea, raspberry tea, pomegranate tea..." I think he would have continued, but I said - "Pomegranate tea sounds nice".
Then my tea arrived (here in the photo, with Megan's pink lemonade on the right). I took a sip. I took a second sip and thought it tasted a little different.
At third sip, I realized the "different" was VODKA. Ummm, hello I didn't know I was ordering an alcoholic beverage at the time. The guy came back and I asked for some "regular" tea as well. He looked at me like I was a bit silly for NOT knowing that OF COURSE the pomegranate tea has vodka in it.
Really, only in the French Quarter would I need to order tea and specify to "hold the alcohol!"
FUNNY TIDBIT to add. I can't spell pomegranate apparently. So when the spell check caught that, I guess I clicked the wrong choice. This whole story was about POMERANIAN TEA for just a bit today. Ewwww!
This past weekend, we took our minivan on its first official road trip. We went to New Orleans to see Megan and Ethan's great grandmother. We saw GG Sarah, Jack and Uncle Stanley and had a great visit.
The trip there wasn't even too bad -- long for the kiddos (and parents) but they both did well.
Here you see Megan all outfitted, headphoned and ready to go! She can watch her movie with the headphones, and we can still listen to normal music!
On the trip back, everyone was tired. We left late anyway (almost 8PM) to try to capitalize on kid sleeping hours. But after the second "Momma -- can we stop at a gas station?" I said "Why - do you need to go potty?". "NO, I think I need to throw up!" I just had to throw my hands up. Since Ethan had already had his moment (and thrown up earlier that day) we called it a day, stopped and got a hotel.
It was actually good to break the trip up a little.
She got the entire back row (and had nested quite thoroughly by the time we cleaned it last night), Ethan the middle row (with the optional seat open so Chris or I could sit with him, feed him, etc.)
Loved the minivan for the space -- lots of room left even with all of our stuff loaded!
AND we had a great visit, so thanks Jack and Sarah for having us. And THANKS Uncle Stanley for getting the awesome food -- Crabs one night, Ribs the next!! (The thank you for the Crabs is from Chris of course....) : )
A few photos of June so far. It has gone by in a flash! Megan has had some fun playing with the neighbors (and so happy to have summer here with more friends to play). Plus, this week she is going to "Princess Camp" at her dance studio. Dance, crafts and Snow White even visited today! I hope to get some cute photos tomorrow during the parent observation class time where they show off what they have done this week.
And what has Ethan done you ask? He has made it to his due date, grown and grown, and slept and slept. What a good boy!
His sister still just adores him and spends all of his "awake" time talking to him, and stroking his face, and generally just loving on her baby brother. She is such a great big sister, and has some natural nurture in her!
